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Sales of video games – an $8 billion industry once thought recession-proof – have plummeted in 2009. May alone showed a 23 percent drop from the same month last year. And the horizon looks bleak, since disposable income tends to tighten in an uncertain economy. The industry, therefore, would be smart to look to a new, seemingly unlikely, audience: the 80 million Baby Boomers entering old age. In fact, the Greatest Generation is already interested. Many local newspapers in the past year have shown how nursing homes are using Nintendo Wii consoles to entertain their residents.